The most startling of the festivals official premieres was Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnsons Anomalisa. There are years when a single movie takes ahold of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with such force that the rest of the festival…
Audiences introduced to Main Line-raised Alex Ross Perry by the acid literary comedy Listen Up Philip may find themselves overwhelmed by its successor, a claustrophobic chamber drama in which Elisabeth Moss pitches into mental breakdown. Although it evokes evanescent predecessors…
[+2] The Philadelphia chapter of the National Organization for Women demands District Attorney Seth Williams investigate the porn emails. OK, hows this?: I hereby seize all the porn via civic forfeiture, says Williams. Ill be in my den. [-1] Artist…
[+2] The Philadelphia chapter of the National Organization for Women demands District Attorney Seth Williams investigate the porn emails. OK, hows this?: I hereby seize all the porn via civic forfeiture, says Williams. Ill be in my den. [-1] Artist…
“I had sex today.” The simple declaration that opens The Diary of a Teenage Girl takes us past the art-house mythology of a young woman’s deflowering and into its complicated aftermath. Adapting Phoebe Gloeckner’s lightly fictionalized graphic novel, Marielle Heller…
Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in The End of the Tour Watching The End of the Tour requires first confronting the fact that David Foster Wallace, here portrayed by Jason Segel during a three-day interview with Rolling Stone writer David…
[+1] A Pennsylvania man is selling his marijuana-themed board game Pass the Grass, which he first thought of in the 70s. In other words, hes the Elon Musk of the pot world. [0] According to a study by a British…
City Paper grade: A- As light and versatile as the iPhones on which it was short, Sean Baker’s neorealist farce not to be confused with the Estonian Oscar nominee Tangerines, although wouldn’t that be a hoot follows transgender sex…
City Paper grade: B+ Auteurism be damned, it’s been hard to think of Trainwreck as anything but an Amy Schumer movie: Between magazine covers, Emmy nominations and a tsunamis of thinkpieces both pro- and con-, she’s at the center of…
City Paper grade: B+ Early in Tsai Ming-liangs debut feature only now getting its first U.S. release in a restored digital version the character played by Tsais onscreen muse Lee Kang-sheng pins a cockroach to a wooden desk…
